Belt-guide.



1. DICK.

BELT GUIDE.

APPLICATION FILED IUNE29, 1912.

1,134,943. P en ed Apr. 6,1915.

THE NORRIS PETERS 60., PHOTC-LITHQ. WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT onricn.

JOSEPH DICK, OF CANTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE JOSEPH DIGK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CANTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

BELT-GUIDE.

Application filed June 29, 1912. serial No. 706,622.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH DICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improve-v ments in Belt-Guides, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a bracket for supporting a belt guide roller on a fiat bar, as, for instance, the flat bar forming a brace for the shaft-end bearing in a fodder cutting machine; and the object of the improvement is to provide a bracket which can be secured on the flat bar to support the roller in various positions for properly guiding the edge of a belt operating around a pulley on the shaft, without requiring any perforations or other engaging means in the body of the bar.

The invention, thus set forth in general terms, is attained by the construction and arrangement of a preferred embodiment thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of the fodder cutter showing two rollers mounted on the improved supports; Fig. 2, a fragmentary elevation of the same; Fig. 3, an elevation of one roller and its support showing the flat bar in section; Fig. 4, an elevation section of the same; and Fig. 5, a detached plan view of the wedge plate.

Similar numerals refer to similar partsthroughout the drawing.

In the present application of the invention, the journal bearing 1 for the outer end of the shaft 2 is supported on the bracket 3 and is braced laterally by the diagonallydisposed fiat bars 4, which bracket and bars are secured to the side of the blower case 5 of the fodder cutter. The pulley wheel 6 is secured on the shaft inside the bearing and between the fiat brace bars, and the belt 7, as shown, extends laterally from the pulley wheel with one section above and the other section below the corresponding brace bar.

Two guide rollers 8 are mounted on the upright spindle 9-, one on each side of the up- 7 per section of the belt. The lower end of each shaft is reduced in diameter to form the bolt 10 and the shoulder 11, which bolt is entered in the corresponding aperture 12 formed in the supporting bracket 13, and the shoulder rests on the rim of the aperture. The corresponding portion of the bracket is Specification of Letters Patent.

. Patented. Apr. 6, 1915.

preferably extended upward to form the cylindric boss 14, preferably of less diameter than the roller 8, and the upper face 15 of the boss forms the bearing for the spindleshoulder and also for the lower end of the roller. The collar 16 is secured on the upper end of the spindle 9 by the cotter pin 17, which collar forms a bearing for the other end of the roller.

The jaw 18 is formed on one end of the supporting bracket .13 adjacent to the bolt aperture, the inner side of which jaw is provided with the outwardly beveled face 19; and the other end of the bracket is extended 7 to form the lateral arm 20 on the free end of which is formed the jaw 21 opposite the jaw 18, the inner side 22 of which is shaped to form a hooked socket for receiving and retaining the outer edge of the brace bar 4.

The wedge plate 23 is provided with the crosswise enlarged axial aperture 24 for receiving the bolt 10, and is securedin operative position by the ordinary washer 25 and. i

wedge plate are beveled to correspond to the inclination of the beveled inner face of the jaw 18, and'the parts are so proportioned and arranged that when the parts are clamped between the nut and the spindle shoulder, one beveled end of the plate will wedge against the inner face of the jaw 18, and the other beveled end will wedge against the inner edge of the brace bar 4, thus rigidly securing the supporting bracket and the roller spindle to the bar.

It is evident that, by making the width of the bearing plate somewhat narrower than the length thereof, the same plate can be turned sidewise and the beveled side edges 27 thereof will serve to clamp a wider flat plate than can be clamped by the beveled end edges 27 of the wedge plate. It is furthermore evident that, by the use of the improved form of bracket thus described, the roller may be mounted on either side of the flat bar 4 and can also be mounted to project above or depend below the bar, for properly guiding the belt according to the direction which the same travels around the pulley. V

When the guide roller stands in upright position, it is preferably lubricated by applying oil directly to the shaft at the upper end of the collar '16; and, when it is in spindle having a bolt on one end entered through the aperture and having a shoulder abutting the rim thereof, an apertured plate 15 on the bolt having beveled ends for wedging against the beveled jaw and the inner edge of the bar, and means, as a nut, on the bolt, for clamping the parts together.

J OSEPH' DICK.

Witnesses:

RUTH A. MILLER, PHILIP A. H. TERRELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

